Food poisoning in children

Food poisoning in children - a fairly common problem faced by many parents. Kids up to three years usually become infected through contact-household - a bit off badly washed apple, licked his toy, dirty hands, and even the touch of my mother, which can be a carrier of infection.

In older children, the most common variant of contamination - water and food: bathing in a muddy pond, raw water, contaminated food. Dysentery, for example, may start if you drink unboiled water, unboiled milk, eat poorly washed fruits, berries and vegetables. Intestinal infections caused by Escherichia, most often occurs because of the poor quality of dairy products - yogurt, yogurt, and Salmonella pathogens Salmonellosis - features of the disease   fall through any contaminated food: meat and eggs, cooked sausage, hot dogs, as well as through poorly washed fruits and vegetables.

Whatever the causes of eating disorders, the symptoms of it are the same:

• diarrhea;
• vomiting;
• stomach ache;
• fever;
• drowsiness, weakness;
• refusal to eat.

To do this, the child is put to bed and give him plenty of drink (to prevent dehydration). Ensure your child maximum comfort, to console him and distract from the pain - is the main task of mothers. In most cases, food poisoning is not a threat to the health of the child and held without medical intervention after 24 - 48 hours. But if there are impurities in the stool blood or mucus, when the skin and whites of the eyes turn yellow baby yet developed symptoms of the nervous system (headache and muscle pain), as soon as possible to see a doctor. It also requires emergency hospitalization for poisoning by mushrooms Poison mushrooms - do not get caught on the hook , Fish or shellfish.

• Place the child in a well-ventilated room close to the toilet. Next to the bed, put a container of vomiting. Vomiting - a way to rid the body of toxins, so the child is in any case should not deter retching. In no case do not let the child antiemetics. You can not give and painkillers - abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting can be a symptom of various diseases requiring urgent surgical intervention. Removing the pain interferes with the correct diagnosis.
• To prevent dehydration, the child needs a plentiful drink. Every 10 minutes a child, let 1 teaspoon or tablespoon baby glucose-saline solution or rehydron Regidron - will help restore the water-salt balance , Alternating with a sweet drink - compote, carrots and rice water, sweet tea. But observe just such dosage: a larger volume of fluid will simply not absorbed the intestines - the liquid will come with loose stools.
• Keep the temperature of the baby. If the temperature rises above 37, 6 degrees, give the kid antipyretic (syrup or pill), but you can reduce the heat, using physical methods, for example, rub the body with alcohol diluted in half with water. If the temperature rises to 39 degrees, contact a doctor immediately.
• Try to clean the room all external stimuli, so that nothing disturbs the peace of the child. Create the conditions for him to rest and sound sleep Dreams: how to understand our dreams . In the dream, the body better fights infections and toxins, so rest and sleep is very important for treatment and quick recovery after food poisoning.
• Explain to the child the rules of hygiene, and teach wash their hands after using the toilet, came from the street, and before sitting down to the table. Warn him that you can not drink unboiled water, eat raw eggs, and touch raw meat and fish, in order to avoid food poisoning in the future.

Medications food poisoning

Going on vacation, many are taking a first aid kit. The structure of a first-aid kit should include including medical supplies, which will be useful for acute food poisoning. These drugs are rehydron, activated charcoal, smectite Smecta - necessary in any medicine cabinet , No-spa, enzyme preparations, and some other drugs.

Preparations for the correction of water-salt metabolism

During the main danger of food poisoning - it's dehydration. To restore the water-salt balance subject to different drugs. The home is well suited for this purpose rehydron, which is composed of sodium and potassium salts.

Regidron restores the water-salt metabolism, impaired during dehydration and prevents acidification of the internal environment (acidosis).

Apply rehydron by dissolving the powder contained in a bag in a liter of water, the prepared solution taken orally in small sips. Ready solution should be stored in a cool place at a temperature of 2 - 8 ° C and use within a day. Apply rehydron usually no more than 3-4 days, treatment is stopped with the end of diarrhea.

Adsorbents food poisoning

Adsorbents - a substance that is deposited on the surface (adsorbed) toxins and toxic metabolites. If poisoning is often used adsorbents such as activated charcoal, smectite and enterosgel.

Activated carbon - a coal plant or animal origin, which is able to adsorb gases, toxins, plant and animal origin, as well as infectious agents. If poisoning charcoal appoint 10 - 20 tablets as a slurry in water. The same solution is carried out gastric lavage.

Smecta is a drug of natural origin with adsorbent action has a beneficial effect on the gastrointestinal tract due to its excellent ability enveloping. It is used in gastric pains, intestinal colic and diarrhea. Adults smektu food poisoning appoint one sachet three times a day, dissolving their contents in half a glass of water. For the first time, you can take two bags at once.

Enterosgel - enterosorbent, ie a drug based on organic silicon, which absorbs toxic substances from the intestines of any origin. It is produced in the form of a paste for oral and gel suspension for oral administration. In addition to the absorbent properties eterosgel has enveloping and detoxication properties, stops diarrhea.

Enterosgel selectively precipitates on the surface of the intestinal contents and blood (from the capillaries of the villi of the intestinal mucosa) toxic substances of various origins. Enterosgel improves bowel, liver and kidneys, the recovery operation of the hematopoietic and immune systems.

Enterosgel paste is more convenient to use - it can be applied directly to the output fields. Enterosgel a hydrogel is taken orally as an aqueous suspension, which should be prepared in accordance with the instruction. The right amount of product was triturated in a quarter cup of water and take with water.

Take enterosgel inside a tablespoon three times a day between meals and other medications. The duration of treatment in acute poisoning enterosgelem about 10 days.

Antispasmodics food poisoning

When food poisoning patients often disturb painful spasms in the stomach and intestines. Spasms of smooth muscles of internal organs removed drugs called antispasmodics. The best-known representative of this group of drugs is a no-spa.

No-spa relieves spasm of smooth muscles of the stomach and intestines, causing the pass painful paroxysmal abdominal pain typical of food poisoning. When poisoning it can take two tablets three times a day.

Enzyme preparations food poisoning

Since food poisoning affects the digestive system all functions including digestion, to correct these disturbances used enzyme preparations improving digestion. These drugs include, for example, mezim forte. The structure of the fort mezima includes enzymes that help digest proteins, fats and carbohydrates. Take mezim forte of 1-2 tablets during meals.

Probiotics are used in food poisoning

During always suffer food poisoning intestine, wherein a negative influence appears and beneficial microorganisms that inhabit therein, help digest food. Therefore, to fully restore function of the gastrointestinal tract should take drugs that contain these bacteria - probiotics. For drugs in this group include bifidumbakterin Bifidumbacterin - restores normal intestinal microflora , Laktobakterin, Linex, bifiform Bifiform - Drug Usage , Atsipol Atsipol - normalizes the intestinal microflora . Take these drugs in the form of courses of treatment in accordance with the instructions.

After the food poisoning is how to do them and restore the digestive system.